How To Get Away With Bigotry In Just 3 Words: “It’s My Faith”

[Feeling the Bern]

On Wednesday night, the city of Houston, Texas passed an ordinance banning discrimination based on, among other characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, sex, nationality, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, and military status. Given the sweeping nature of the measure, it will undoubtedly have real, positive effects for people who are marginalized or discriminated against simply because of who they are.

Welcome to Idiot America.

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1. "Religion is a disgrace to humanity.

Without religion good people would continue to do good things and evil people would continue to do evil things. It takes religion to make good people do evil things."

Nobel Laureate (Physics) Steven Weinberg

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Voltaire